dilemmas and maintening public goods in human societies. We study the development of cooperation in 929 young children, aged 3 … of defectors is applied. Children also engage in reciprocating others, showing that reciprocity strategies are already … young children fail to anticipate the benefits of reputation building. We also show that the cognitive skills of children …

We study whether and how parents interfere paternalistically in their children’s intertemporal decision-making. Based … on experiments with over 2,000 members of 610 families, we find that parents anticipate their children’s present bias and … aim to mitigate it. Using a novel method to measure parental interference, we show that more than half of all parents are …

We present a field experiment to study the effects of non-monetary incentives on healthy food choices of 282 children … be feasible. We introduce a system where food items are graded based on their nutritional value, involving parents or … classmates as change agents by providing them with information regarding the food choices of their children or friends. We find …

The COVID19 crisis has hit labor markets. School and child-care closures have put families with children in challenging … situations. We look at Germany and quantify the macroeconomic importance of working parents. We document that 26 percent of the … German work force have children aged 14 or younger and estimate that 11 percent of workers and 8 percent of all working hours …

mentoring intervention that exposes low-SES children to predominantly female role models causally affects girls' willingness to …

locus of control of parents and their children, as well as rich information about parental efforts in the upbringing of … their children from the German Socio-Economic Panel Study. Our results show that parents who are more involved in the … personality traits of their children. We exploit information on the risk and trust attitudes, the Big Five personality traits and …

mentoring relationship affects both parents and children and has positive long-term implications for children's educational …Inequality of opportunity strikes when two children with the same academic performance are sent to different quality … schools because their parents differ in socio-economic status. Based on a novel dataset for Germany, we demonstrate that …

the children brought with them depends on the quality of the destination that their parents selected. Exploiting variation … migrants in Indonesia. Using Population Census microdata from 2000 and 2010, I show that children who spend more time growing … permanent residents at an average rate of 1.7 to 2.2 percent annually, with children from less educated households benefiting …